"Environmentalism" is a Relegion Options

[Dogmeat]

http://cdfe.org/religion.htm

I think this is a wonderful article....

I studied anthropology in college, and one of the things I learned was that certain human social structures always reappear. They can't be eliminated from society. One of those structures is religion. Today it is said we live in a secular society in which many people---the best people, the most enlightened people---do not believe in any religion. But I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form. You can not believe in God, but you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it's a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths

Hmmmmmmmmm...............think about this.



OH! Snap

Facts? What are those? It makes no difference since nobody can prove a damned thing about any of it other than "yes the climate is changing".

Similar to "yes, we exist as humans here on earth"

OOOOHHH NOO!!!!!



I just LOVE IT when assfucks from LA and New York who have never set foot in dirt their entire lives vote for assfucks in washington that try to kick me off the land I actually do something to protect because I use it as opposed to just shutting it off completley so they can "feel good"

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk-and as the years go on, and the world population grows increasingly urban, it's uninformed talk. Farmers know what they're talking about. City people don't. It's all fantasy

*GASP*

You mean LOCAL PEOPLE actually might know something that a bunch of egotistical fuckslaps in urban suburbia don't? NO!

But let's return to religion. If Eden is a fantasy that never existed, and mankind wasn't ever noble and kind and loving, if we didn't fall from grace, then what about the rest of the religious tenets? What about salvation, sustainability, and judgment day? What about the coming environmental doom from fossil fuels and global warming, if we all don't get down on our knees and conserve every day?

this is seriously the most intelligent thing I've ever read about "the environment" hahah

First, we need an environmental movement, and such a movement is not very effective if it is conducted as a religion. We know from history that religions tend to kill people, and environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s. It's not a good record. Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth---that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric. The effort to promote effective legislation for the environment is not helped by thinking that the Democrats will save us and the Republicans won't. Political history is more complicated than that. Never forget which president started the EPA: Richard Nixon. And never forget which president sold federal oil leases, allowing oil drilling in Santa Barbara: Lyndon Johnson. So get politics out of your thinking about the environment.

I agree with this mainly, however, the democrats are a LOT more prone to shutting the public out of land access as well as sending energy exploration over seas ... I don't know if he really researched this that well before he made that statement, but overall It hink he's correct.

Because in the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better. That's not a good future for the human race. That's our past. So it's time to abandon the religion of environmentalism, and return to the science of environmentalism, and base our public policy decisions firmly on that.

aw

but if we did that then our savior al gore wouldn't have won his little trophy

[Psykopath]

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This post has been edited by Psykopath: Dec 2 2007, 11:04 PM

[Mommy]

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